Truck bed canopy mount

Abstract

A truck bed canopy is arranged to include a plurality of parallel slide rails arranged for sliding reception within side wall rail members mounted to upper top walls of vehicular truck bed side walls. A lock pin is directed through the slide rail and associated companion side wall rail member to selectively secure the components together permitting ease of assembly and disassembly of the associated truck bed canopy relative to the truck bed.

What is claimed as being new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows: 
     
       1. A truck bed canopy mount arrangement for mounting to a vehicle having a truck bed, wherein the truck bed includes truck bed side walls, and each side wall includes an upper top wall surface, and a canopy, wherein the canopy includes canopy side walls, and each canopy side wall includes a lower end face, wherein the arrangement comprises, a plurality of side wall rail members, each side wall rail member arranged for mounting to one of said upper top wall surfaces, and each side wall rail member including a side rail top wall spaced from a side wall rail bottom wall, and spaced side wall rail side walls, and   a T-shaped channel directed into each side wall rail member through the side wall rail top wall, and each T-shaped channel includes a channel floor, and each channel floor includes a plurality of floor apertures directed therethrough, with each floor aperture arranged for receiving a fastener for mounting the side wall rail member to an upper top wall surface, and   a plurality of slide rails, each slide rail arranged for mounting to a lower end face of a canopy side wall, and each slide rail having a slide rail bottom wall spaced from a slide rail top wall, and spaced slide rail walls, each side wall includes a side wall slot coextensive with each side wall, and the slots are coextensive relative to one another and arranged in a colinear relationship, wherein each slide rail is received within one of the T-shaped channels between the slots and the slide rail bottom wall, and   each slide rail having a plurality of mounting bores, with each mounting bore arranged to receive a further fastener to secure a slide rail to one of the canopy side walls, and   each channel floor includes a lock aperture directed therethrough, and each slide rail includes a lock bore, wherein each lock bore is aligned with one of said lock apertures to define a lock bore pair, and a plurality of lock pins, each lock pin having a lock pin body, and each lock bore pair is arranged to receive a lock pin therethrough, with each lock pin having a plurality of resilient sealing rings, with one of the sealing rings positioned within said lock bore, and a further one of said sealing rings positioned within the lock aperture of the lock bore pair, and   each channel floor includes a plurality of fibrous lubricant impregnated pads to provide for lubricity between the channel floor and the slide rail bottom wall, and each impregnated pad is received within a pad recess directed into a channel floor, and   a trim plate assembly mounted to each slide rail top wall, and each trim plate assembly having a first flange mounted to a slide rail top wall, and a second flange orthogonally and fixedly mounted to the first flange, and the second flange having a second flange track, and a trim plate slidably received within the track.